AMD X370 Chipset For High-End AM4 Motherboards Detailed

Details regarding the AMD X370 chipset have leaked out over at Planet3dnow. The details confirm that X370 will be the high-end chip designed to support the upcoming Tiptop Ridge processors. These processors will be designed using the adjacent-gen Zen core architecture that offers up to 40% IPC increase over Excavator and higher efficiency.

AMD X370 Chipset For High-End AM4 Boards Detailed - Summit Ridge and Overclocking Support

The chipset stack is known equally Promontory and consists of four SKUs. While majority of these SKUs were detailed along side the Bristol Ridge launch, there'due south one that has been kept under wraps. This is the high-terminate X370 chipset which will be aimed at the enthusiast market place.

AMD Zen features a new pattern built from the ground up on the 14nm FinFET process node.

For starters, the AM4 platform is only currently available through OEMs. The general public launch will be coming in a few months afterwards, around CES 2022. Motherboards congenital by various AIBs will be aimed at the PC DIY marketplace with loads of CPU and I/O features. General availability of the high-end boards is expected around February 2022 as detailed before. Let'southward have a in-depth expect at all of the chipsets:

AMD X370 For Enthusiast AM4 Motherboards:

First up, we take X370, a high-finish chipset for overclockers and tweakers who need robust platforms. This fleck provides the ultimate low-level command to its users and delivers ultimate graphics card bandwidth. By bandwidth, AMD is referring to max PCI-Express lanes every bit this is the just flake in the stack that supports multi-GPU functionality. The chipset supports both, CFX (CrossFire) and SLI.

AMD X370 and Summit Ridge processors will be aimed at enthusiasts, delivering the best overclocking functioning.

AMD has mentioned two total x16 (Gen3) lanes for GPUs. AIBs can add additional lanes through a PLX chip but that would add to the toll. X370 features full overclocking back up with a very sophisticated GUI that will permit the best overclock tools and experiences. Since all AM4 CPUs have an unlocked multiplier, record breakers will definitely put X370 boards to the test on liquid and LN2 setups.

AMD B350 For Mainstream AM4 Motherboards:

AMD B350 is the mainstream chipset and offers the nearly value in terms of I/O and functionality. This chip offers lower lanes compared to X370 since about AMD believes that almost users don't get multi-GPU under this segment. Aside from that, the chipset does retain overclocking support for all AM4 CPUs that will be offered in the hereafter. This chipset replaces the 970 and A78 platforms.

The AMD B350 chipset features 70% power reduction over its AM3+ predecessor (5.8W vs xix.6W). The latest DDR4 memory controller also offers 22% more bandwidth compared to DDR3.

Some general features of the AM4 platform is that it offers new I/O capabilities. We are looking at faster DDR4-2400 MHz retentivity, PCI-e Gen three.0, USB 3.1 Gen two, NVMe and SATA Express support. These features take been missing on AMD platforms for a while but it's squeamish that AMD is finally making a proper comeback with modernistic feature back up.

AMD A320 / A300 For Essential and SFF AM4 Motherboards:

Side by side up, we have the low-end chipsets for the Promontory stack. The A320 is the essential platform for plug and play users who just want their PC to work with decent capabilities. This chipset replaces the 760G and A68H based platforms. Most of the features from B350 volition be retained merely there will be no overclocking support on such motherboards. This flake has 4 PCI-e Gen 2 lanes and 1+2+6 (USB 3.1 Gen2, USB 3.one Gen1, USB ii.0) support.

The A300 is the chip designed for Small-scale Grade Factor computers and generally, HTPC builds. This offers the ultimate power and infinite efficiency in the entire production stack. This is a new chip that has been exclusively built for the SFF niche. A300 has limited functionalities but volition be extremely cheap and allow for neat SFF setups.

AMD's AM4 product stack is very extensive and aims to tackle Intel on all segments this time around. With a great CPU line up that is both affordable and fast, AMD can definitely stir upward the PC DIY market in 1H of 2022.

Adjacent Generation AMD CPUs And APUs

WCCFTech	AMD Summit Ridge	AMD Elevation Ridge	AMD Bristol Ridge	AMD Raven Ridge	AMD Gray Militarist
Family unit Name	Ryzen	TBD	AMD 7th Gen A-Series	Ryzen	TBD
Product Compages	Zen	Zen Refresh / Zen 2	Excavator	Zen	Zen 2
Process Node	14nm	12nm	28nm	14nm	14nm
CPU Cores	Up to 8	Up to viii	Upward to 4	Upward to four	Up to iv
GPU Architecture	N/A	Due north/A	Caribbean Islands	Vega	Navi
TDP	65W-95W	65W-95W	15-65W	TBA	TBA
Socket	AM4	AM4	AM4	AM4	AM4
Retentivity Support	DDR4	DDR4	DDR4	DDR4	DDR4
Launch	2017	2018	2016 (Mobile) 2022 (Desktop)	2017 (Mobile) 2022 (Desktop)	2019